RE: ipchains

1999-11-21 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
From my understanding, all the rules should be in /etc/ipmasq/rules -Original Message- From: Colin Marquardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 1:54 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ipchains * Sven Esbjerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Nov

Lock file Debs over NFS

1999-11-21 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I can't get access to my debs on my desktop over the network. This lock file is getting in my way! Okay my laptop hostname is debian (just installed) and my desktop is viper. For some reason when I do apt-get dist-upgrade, a lock file is created and it won't delete it and complete the command.

RE: kerneld won't go away!

1999-11-20 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I added a line noauto in /etc/modules file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stuart Ballard Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 1:57 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: kerneld won't go away! Why is it that, even after religiously

RE: Newbie Questions

1999-11-18 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
First of all, upgrading from slink to potato is quite a lot of changes. The system is going to update about every package on your machine. I beleive E 16 requires a lot of things in potato, so no getting around upgrading. What error is apt giving you? For sound, I would check the How-tos or the

NIS over Internet

1999-11-18 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
From what I understand NIS isn't encrypted. NIS+ is, but NIS+ doesn't work out of the box and requires a bunch of extra shit to make work. Is there a way to ssh yp or something to get it working? I'd like to use it, but all my servers are spread apart. Thanks. bb

Q: pts? vs ttyp?

1999-08-19 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I had a problem recently with running out of available ports on a server. I switched to UNIX98 in trying to resolve the problem. So far, I haven't had a problem, but now I notice that some people who access the server connect as pts/? And some connect as ttyp?. All pts connections are made with

Squid + modroamin

1999-07-11 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
How can I get squid + junkbuster + modroaming to work? I think the problem is that I have my browser setup for proxing to junkbuster which goes to squid. Modroaming doesn't appear to work through the proxy. If I don't proxy, it works fine. Is there a way around this? I'm using potato (latest) and

more about garbled terminal

1999-07-06 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Okay, I seem to have found a work around, but how can I fix it properly? When I telnet into Debian w/CRT and I type: set | grep TERM, i get: TERM=linux. If I do: export TERM=vt100, emacs and dselect work fine. Without doing this, emacs and dselect get garbled after using them for a bit and don't

RE: more about garbled terminal

1999-07-06 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
garbled terminal How is this not proper? I mean, if you are using vt100, then setting the environment variable to vt100 should be the proper way. Am I missing something? From: Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: more about garbled terminal

RE: more about garbled terminal

1999-07-06 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
responsibility. I'll have to look into it. From: Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: more about garbled terminal Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:20:03 -0700 As far as my understanding goes. All of this should be auto configured and setup

RE: more about garbled terminal

1999-07-06 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
var to vt100 to satisfy my telnet. The real terminal was skrewed up, so I had to set it back to ansi. I suppose it is the telnet daemons responsibility. I'll have to look into it. From: Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: more about

RE: Sound - ALSA or kernel?

1999-07-06 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Hmm, you'll have to use isapnp for it. I know there is a awe howto out there also. Another thing is to check the kernel docs. There is some awe stuff in there. Good luck. From my soundcard experiences, using oss in the kernel is much easier. I hear alsa is better, but if you don't need its

RE: other news questions

1999-07-06 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
So an ISP uses inn, but do they use nntpcache? What does it do exactly? I understand it caches, but how, what rules, etc? Well, I'll be setting up some kind of news system, not sure what yet bb -Original Message- From: Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:12

RE: windowmaker and gnome

1999-07-06 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
It should already be loading, you might find a bunch of errors in your .xsession. it appears there is some bug in loading gnome-panel when you load it the first time. Other times seem to work. bb -Original Message- From: Aaron Solochek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06,

How to disable prompt erase downloaded debs

1999-07-05 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Is it possible to stop dselect from asking Do you want to erase the downloaded .deb files (y/n)? prompt? There is an option in apt-get for this already. I'd rather have it default to no! I keep pressing enter and nuking hundreds of megs! what can i do?? bb

gnome session-panel X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i can do is right click and middle click. Also, another problem i'm having with X: When I Log out, the window manager closes, (the borders and such disapear) but the system doesn't return to gdm. It sits in X till i

telnet terminal gets garbled

1999-07-04 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I don't know why this happens, but when I telnet to my machine and I use dselect, emacs, or whatever. The text gets messed up. I use CRT for telneting. I have it set to vt100 and have the ansi box checked in the settings. I telnet to slackware boxes with the same settings and they work fine. It

RE: gnome session-panel X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I don't have an .xsession file, or mabye I dleted it in trying to clense the problem. I deleted all the X related hidden stuff. .gnome* and such. I tried to get it to revert to defaults to see if that would help, but it doesn't. Seems like gnome doesn't understand i want to exit!! Well, I thought

RE: gnome session-panel X problems

1999-07-04 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Damian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 9:36 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: gnome session-panel X problems Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i can do is right click and middle

apt-get errors

1999-06-27 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
anyone know how I can fix this mess? Seems like the scripts are broken or something... viper:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: xfig 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0

RE: dependencies

1999-06-26 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
, 1999 3:05 PM To: Brendon Baumgartner Subject: Re: dependencies Brendon Baumgartner wrote: I don't get any error messages. When i'm using dselect and it does checking dependencies it gets stuck. It just sits there and does nothing. I did an upgrade to my potato system using apt-get dist-upgrade

RE: xfstt

1999-06-11 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Thanks to this thread, I FINALLY got xfstt to work. I found out that once you have xset +fs set for your port, you can't restart xfstt without restarting the whole X system. Anyhow, took me awhile to get it working. I have one question though. I could have sworn the outlook 2000 ttf worked

RE: xfstt

1999-06-11 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Do you have an exaple for setting up xfs and replacing all the X fontpath config lines? Seems I can't get it working properly. BB -Original Message- From: Arcady Genkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 3:08 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: xfstt

RE: [comp.os.linux.misc] I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I mostly agree with his point about not knowing to put the second CD in while installing debian. I missed that also the first try. I didn't experience his problem with makeing the symlink, and i'm not sure how obvious modconf is to a new user. I don't remeber it being mentioned during install, but

RE: Random partitioning questions

1999-06-08 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
There is a Howto on this. Searhc LDP for it. It goes into great detail. Maybe it was one of their admin docs. Not sure. For me, I make partitions of: / /usr /home swap I sometimes get more creative depending on the purpose of the system. If its a news server or high traffic mail server, i would

RE: can bind keep best routes ?

1999-06-08 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Ummm ...what does bind have to do with routing? -Original Message- From: Jean-Yves F. Barbier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 6:07 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: can bind keep best routes ? Hi all, I think bind is able to keep the best routes in a

Alsa and sb16. No go.

1999-06-07 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Here is the error ... viper:~# /etc/init.d/alsa start Starting sound driver: snd-sb16 /lib/modules/2.2.9/sound/isapnp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy snd-sb-dsp: No such file or directory failed. viper:~# The file /lib/modules/2.2.9/sound/isapnp.o exists. I compiled the kernel with

RE: apt-get configuration for multi cd set

1999-06-05 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Point it to the second CD. It contains the first and the second. I believe the installation instructions discuss this. I first installed without reading instructions, and I didn't figure this out till later. It would be nice if you could install without ever having to read the installation

Confused package database

1999-06-03 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I somewhat screwed up my package database and had to revert to an old one. Now it thinks I have some stuff that is installed which isn't and some that it thinks is installed and is not. WHen I run install in dselect, I get a lot of these. I guess i'm saying, how do I reinitialize the package

bashrc file gone! Where is it?

1999-05-28 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I can't seem to find the .bashrc file. I checked all over for it. According to the debian package search on their website, its suppose to be in the bash package, but I installed that again, and its not there! What can I do to find it?? Thanks. Brendon

dselect wants to remove everything! Stop!

1999-05-28 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
Anyone know why, everything in dselect is set to uninstall? How do i reset the damn thing? I think debs are great, but having to use dsleect is just a nightmare. Thanks for any help! Brendon